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This largest series holds files of personal correspondence to and from HRB which were kept in the ILWU offices from 1936 to 1977 while he was ILWU International President. Included is personal correspondence and selected union correspondence which he chose to keep private. This is material that was not sent to the ILWU Archives, as all other office files would have been after two years. When HRB retired, he took his “Personal” files home.

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Lou Goldblatt to HRB, December 16, on ILWU ongoing business.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This largest series holds files of personal correspondence to and from HRB which were kept in the ILWU offices from 1936 to 1977 while he was ILWU International President. Included is personal correspondence and selected union correspondence which he chose to keep private. This is material that was not sent to the ILWU Archives, as all other office files would have been after two years. When HRB retired, he took his “Personal” files home.

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Ben Gold to HRB, May 28, re sponsorship of dinner honoring W. E. B. DuBois; Paul Robeson to HRB, June 23, asking HRB to be observer in World Peace Council delegation to UN to push for end of Korean War.

Scope and Contents Memo from Goldie Krantz, Anne Waybur, Lincoln Fairley, and Virginia Woods to Lou Goldblatt, January 18, on establishing an ILWU Welfare Department; HRB to Co-Directors, American Peace Crusade, June 23, criticizing their program; Bill Glazier (ILWU Washington Representative) to ILWU Officers, July 9, report on Independent Progressive Party Convention; HS (Henry Schmidt?) document on Local 10 list of five members to be re-registered, including reasons and record of minutes to support...

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Memo to Jack Hall (unsigned), January 20, critical of defense strategy of Hawaii Smith Act trial; Rockwell Kent to HRB, June 19, congratulating HRB on Supreme Court Decision; Typescript, author unknown, October 16, on east coast situation in ILA; Document, circa April 1953: Outline of Approach to 1953 Negotiations, Local 6; Document, circa May 1953: Notes on Convention and Caucus.